Genomic and Functional Variation of the Chlorophyll d-Producing Cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina.

ABSTRACT: The Chlorophyll d-producing cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina is widely distributed in marine environments enriched in far-red light, but our understanding of its genomic and functional diversity is limited. Here, we take an integrative approach to investigate A. marina diversity for 37 strains, which includes twelve newly isolated strains from previously unsampled locations in Europe and the Pacific Northwest of North America. A genome-wide phylogeny revealed both that closely related A. marina have migrated within geographic regions and that distantly related A. marina lineages can co-occur. The distribution of traits mapped onto the phylogeny provided evidence of a dynamic evolutionary history of gene gain and loss during A. marina diversifica

SUBMITTER: Miller SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8949462 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature